Dr Richard Montgomery has been awarded a prestigious prize from the European Mathematical Society. The citationLink opens in a new window reads: "For his solution of the Ringel tree packing conjecture, development of distributive absorption techniques with applications to graph embedding problems, and resolution of several classical conjectures of Erdős and others on cycle lengths in sparse graphs using the novel machinery of sublinear expanders."

The EMS prizes were established in 1992. At each ECM up to ten EMS prizes are awarded to early career researchers not older than 35 years at the time of nomination. The award comprises a certificate including the citation and a cash prize of €5000.